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6/21/1999NewsBreakThomson’s Gale Group Acquires MacMillan Library Reference USA
6/21/1999NewsBreakNorthern Light’s usgovsearch Begins Commercial Operation with Revised Pricing Plan
6/21/1999NewsBreakQuestel-Orbit Completes Intellectual Property Gold Project, With Revised and Integrated Search Software
6/21/1999NewsBreakWest Loses Copyright Claim over Page Numbers
6/14/1999NewsBreakNew SkyMinder.com Pay-Per-View Business Information Service Debuts
6/14/1999NewsBreakWavePhore Changes its Name and Introduces NewsPak
6/1/1999NewsBreakAeneid Unveils EoCenter and Creates the Internet Information Exchange
6/1/1999NewsBreakThomson Companies Commit to Vertical Market Strategies As Gale Group’s InSite is Moved to Intelligence Data
5/24/1999NewsBreakDialog Will Drop DialUnit Pricing Later This Year
5/17/1999NewsBreakPrimark Rolls Out Piranha
5/17/1999NewsBreakNewsEdge Offers New Insight on the News
5/17/1999NewsBreakDow Jones Interactive, Reuters Business Briefing Merged into Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive
5/10/1999NewsBreakNew Competitive Intelligence Tools Promised from Alliance of Dow Jones Interactive, Fuld & Company, and Iron Horse Multimedia; New Free Web Portal Service Promised for Web Users
5/10/1999NewsBreakNorthern Light Receives $35 Million in Funding, Prepares for Major Ad Campaign
5/3/1999NewsBreakGale Group Consolidates Products and Integrates Content with One Interface
4/26/1999NewsBreakNewsMaps.com Shows Visual Landscapes of News
4/26/1999NewsBreakWeb Search Engine Companies Discuss Standards and Spammers
4/19/1999NewsBreakReed-Elsevier’s Engineering Information Acquires API EnCompass; Parent Company Still in Turmoil
4/19/1999NewsBreakITI’s Internet Librarian conference makes its overseas debut
4/12/1999NewsBreaknetLibrary Launches Comprehensive Digital Library
3/29/1999NewsBreakNorthern Light and NTIS Team Up to Produce One-Stop Federal Government Site
3/29/1999NewsBreakThe theme of “strategic imperatives” lent a sense of urgency to the event
3/29/1999NewsBreakThe question of the hour was, “Do you have a Web-user mindset?”
3/29/1999News DigestThe theme of “strategic imperatives” lent a sense of urgency to the event
3/15/1999NewsBreakInSite 2 from Gale Group to Replace Earlier InSite Products from IAC
3/1/1999NewsBreakAustralia’s premier information industry event again gets high marks
3/1/1999NewsBreakConference speakers challenge publishers to transform their businesses
3/1/1999NewsBreakNewsEdge Restructures Company and Announces 4Q Results
2/22/1999NewsBreakPrimark Name Going Up Over Ever Expanding Operation; Disclosure Database Going Down Off DIALOG
2/22/1999NewsBreakInfonautics Provides E-commerce Archive Services for Publishers
2/15/1999NewsBreakThe Dialog Corporation Launches Intranet Toolkit
2/8/1999NewsBreakDialog Announces “Realignment,” Management Changes, the Sale of CARL/Uncover, And …
2/1/1999NewsBreakSilverPlatter Allies With Kluwer and Dawson to Broaden Reach of SilverLinker
2/1/1999NewsBreakA Flurry of Legal Announcements from LEXIS-NEXIS
1/25/1999NewsBreakThe SPA-IIA Merger is Now Official
1/18/1999NewsBreakKnowledgeLink Interactive Changes Name to powerize.com; Upgrades Intranet Server Designed for Corporate Data Handling
12/21/1998NewsBreakIHS Ends Microfilm Production, Goes to CD-ROM and the Web: Another Nail in Microfilm’s Coffin?
12/21/1998NewsBreakOnline Information 98 Exhibition and Conference: Knowledge Management grabs center stage
12/14/1998NewsBreakInformation Today, Inc. Acquires Libtech International Exhibition; Will Produce Internet Librarian International Conference in U.K.
12/14/1998NewsBreakSTN International Files All on the Web in Spring 1999
12/14/1998NewsBreakDow Jones Adds Full Images from 1,200 Sources to Publications Library
11/30/1998NewsBreakDialog Extends Its E-Commerce Strategy with Acquisition of Write Works Ltd.
11/30/1998NewsBreakNewsBreak Tracker: Barnes & Noble Buys Ingram and Sets Off a Powder Keg
11/30/1998NewsBreakDow Jones Backs Off on ‘Web-Only’ Access, Will Support Windows Proprietary Product
11/30/1998NewsBreakIIA’s 30th Annual Conference
11/16/1998NewsBreakInfonautics Launches Preview Version of Company Sleuth; Corporate Version Coming Soon
11/16/1998NewsBreakOCLC and WLN Begin Negotiations to Merge
11/16/1998NewsBreakThe Internet Librarian ’98 Conference. ITI’s second West Coast show provided networking information and opportunities
10/26/1998NewsBreakDow Jones Interactive Expands to Search Web Content, Adds AP Newswires
10/26/1998NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Announces a Universe to Access on the Web
10/26/1998NewsBreakAuthors’ Copyright Claims Upheld by Court: Ryan v. CARL Corporation
10/26/1998NewsBreakOnline World, Fall ’98
The traditionals hang on to the limelight
10/19/1998NewsBreakThe Gale Group Announces Partnership with the Aeneid Corp.
10/19/1998NewsBreakDialog Introduces Web Access to Pure Command-Driven DIALOG in DialogClassic; Announces Upgrades to Menu-Supported DialogWeb
10/19/1998NewsBreakA "Gift of the Web' for the Library of Congress from Alexa Internet
10/19/1998NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Partners with Aurigin Systems for Intellectual Property Service
10/12/1998NewsBreakDialog Exercises Option to Buy Responsive Database Services, Inc.
10/12/1998NewsBreakFulltext Sources Online Directory Bought by Information Today, Inc.
10/12/1998NewsBreakMecklermedia Sold to Penton Media
10/5/1998NewsBreakOvid Technologies Bought by Wolters Kluwer for $200 Million
9/21/1998NewsBreakDialog Announces Move of U.S. Headquarters to North Carolina
9/21/1998NewsBreakDocument Delivery Field Continues to Shrink with Demise of EBSCO Document Services
9/21/1998NewsBreakNew Corporate Market Products and Organization at The Institute for Scientific Information
9/21/1998NewsBreakSearcher Tip: Browsing Formats Improve at Dialog
9/14/1998NewsBreakThomson Merges Gale, IAC, Primary Source Media into The Gale Group
8/31/1998NewsBreakDow Jones Interactive Expands its Web-Based Marketing Alliances
8/31/1998NewsBreakFull-Image Articles Available from LEXIS-NEXIS; Per-Article Pricing for Elsevier Science Direct Material
8/31/1998NewsBreakNewsEdge Forges Alliances with Content and Delivery Companies
8/24/1998NewsBreakAOL Withdraws Support for PLS, Thunderstone Steps In
8/17/1998NewsBreakThe Last Round-Up: Dialog to Eliminate DialUnit Round-Up in September
8/17/1998NewsBreakAmerican Business Information Has a New Name—infoUSA—and a New Web Site
8/10/1998NewsBreakMCI Recognizes Cybrarians for Connecting Communities Through Cyberspace
8/10/1998NewsBreakDialog Launches E-Commerce Strategy with Planet Retail
8/5/1998NewsBreakDialog and Dow Jones Interactive Improve the Searchability of Their Web-Based and Intranet-Based Products
8/3/1998NewsBreakControversy Continues over Filtering the Internet
8/3/1998NewsBreakWest Launches Intranet Toolkit
7/27/1998NewsBreakMoody's Financial Information Services (FIS) Acquired by FCC
7/13/1998NewsBreakFirst Fruit of ARL's SPARC Alliance: ACS to Publish New Reduced-Cost Science Journals
7/13/1998NewsBreakAcademic "Mega-Consortium" Negotiates LEXIS-NEXIS Access
7/13/1998NewsBreakUMI Announces Digital Vault Initiative
7/6/1998NewsBreakDataStar Back from the Dead and Without DialUnits; Minor Adjustments in DialUnits for Dialog Itself
7/6/1998NewsBreakU.S. PTO to Load Patents and Trademarks Full Text onto the Web, Accessible for Free
6/29/1998NewsBreakSilverLinker from SilverPlatter Allows for Seamless Links to Full Text
6/29/1998NewsBreakNorthern Light Introduces Precision Search Enhancements
6/25/1998NewsBreakThe 1998 SLA Annual Conference: Show Us the Money
6/22/1998NewsBreakDomain Name Searches Across the World's Registries on Thomson and Thomson's Saegis Service
6/22/1998NewsBreakDealing With the New Dialog Pricing: An Emergency Toolkit
6/15/1998NewsBreakIAC Launches LifeCenter Online Answer Packages for Public Libraries
6/15/1998NewsBreakQuestel-Orbit Focuses on Intellectual Property Gold; Will Shut Down Orbit
6/8/1998NewsBreakNorthern Light Announces Agreement with The New York Times on The Web
6/8/1998NewsBreakDow Jones Interactive Introduces Intranet Toolkit
6/8/1998NewsBreakDialog Waives $75 Monthly Minimum for Information Brokers
6/8/1998NewsBreakFirst Look—Dialog's DialUnit Pricing
5/29/1998NewsBreakMercury Center Free! San Jose Mercury News Drops Subscription Charges
5/21/1998NewsBreakLEXIS-NEXIS Statistical Universe Opens Web-Based Access to Government, Academic, and Private Statistics
5/21/1998NewsBreakThomson Financial Services Expands Financial Offerings on the Web
5/6/1998NewsBreakDialog Re-Introduces 'CPU-like' Charges, Drops Connect Time
4/1/1998NewsBreakAIIP's 12th Annual Conference: Looking Ahead and Looking
3/13/1998NewsBreakProposed Reed Elsevier/Wolters Kluwer Merger Abandoned
2/23/1998NewsBreakDialog Corp. Execs Announce Substantive Plans in Multi-City Tour
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